Wiki account removal needed?

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Sep 23 21:22:52 UTC 2009


On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Jon Stanley wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Looks like the user "Georgia10" just inserted spam on that page.
> > Aiyiyi.
>
> What's our procedure for deleting/disabling a rogue FAS account?  It
> appears that the account in question was just created today, probably
> for the express purpose of spamming the wiki and then disappearing.  I
> would like to think that only a human could create an accounts,
> there's a variety of steps involved.  But maybe some sort of CAPTCHA
> on the signup page could reduce this in the future?
>

Well,

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem#Account_Termination

Clearly states "malicious usage" as grounds for termination.  What was the
page in question?

	-Mike




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